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Template Revision 1.0 - on construction

Design Name always "TE Series Name" + Design name, for example "TEI0015 Test Board"

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Overview

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Notes :

NIOS II Design with SDRAM Controller and 4 different LED sequences, that can be toggled using the user button.

Refer to http://trenz.org/tei0015-info for the current online version of this manual and other available documentation.

Key Features

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  • Quartus 18.1
  • NIOS II
  • SPI
  • UART
  • ADC
  • User Flash memory
  • SDRAM memory
  • User LEDs
  • User buttons

Revision History

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Release Notes and Know Issues

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Requirements

Software

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Hardware

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Design supports following modules:

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Download

Reference Design is only usable with the specified Quartus version. Do never use different Versions of Quartus Software for the same Project.

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Design Flow

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  • Basic Design Steps

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  1. Open file "test_board.quar"
  2. Select Tools → Platform Designer  from Quartus menu
  3. Open file "NIOS_test_board.qsys" in Platform Designer
  4. Open the component "onchip_flash" (double-click)
    1. Enable "Initialize flash content" and "Enable non-default initialization file" at Flash Initialization, if disabled
    2. Specify Path for "User created hex or mif file". You can find the file at \software\test_board\mem_init\onchip_flash.hex
  5. Select Generate → Generate HDL... from the Platform Designer menu
  6. The Generation window will appear

    1. Select "VHDL" as the synthesis language and "None" from the simulation model dropdown menu

    2. Select “Create block symbol file(.bsf)”, if not selected

    3.  Click Generate and close Platform Designer
  7. Select Processing → Start Compilation from the Quartus menu to compile the Design

Launch

Programming

MAX10 Flash

  1. Connect the Board to USB-Port
  2. Open Quartus Programmer from Tools → Programmer
  3. If the Arrow-USB-Blaster is not visible:
    1. Click "Hardware Setup..."
    2. Choose at the drop-down menu "Currently selected hardware" the Arrow-USB-Blaster[USB0]
    3. Close "Hardware Setup"
  4. If the correct configuration file is not set:
    1. Delete other files
    2. Click "Add file..."
    3. select the correct *.pof file (Path: <project_directory>\output_files\test_board.pof)
  5. Click start

Usage

  1. Prepare Hardware like described on section TEI0015 Test Board
  2. Connect UART USB (most cases same as JTAG)

UART

  1. Open Serial Console "PuTTY"
  2. Change settings in category "Session"
    1. Connection Type: Serial
    2. COM Port: see device manager (Win OS)
    3. Speed: 115200
  3. Select "Implicit CR in every LF" in category "Terminal"
  4. Click Open
  5. Press reset button at module
    1. Flash test is running
  6. After the  flash test finished, you can toggle between following LED sequences by pressing user button
    1. Case statement sequence
    2. Shift register sequence
    3. Knightrider sequence
    4. Pulse-width modulation sequence

Appx. A: Change History and Legal Notices

Document Change History

To get content of older revision  got to "Change History"  of this page and select older document revision number.

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